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William Carlos Williams Award winner for Selected Poems and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Ruefle writes poetry that bears serious reading. She's not especially ornate, instead introducing ordinary scenes in mostly straightforward language, then twisting them with keen insight to show the momentous dark beneath. From the breakfast scene in "New Morning"—"I smell the cream/ ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More